| Date |
Speaker |
Topic* |
August 31
|
Introductory tea |
| September 7 |
David DeMille, Yale University
Host: V. Alan Kostelecky
|
Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of Elementary Particles |
| September 14 |
Sue Coppersmith, Univ. of Wisconsin
Host: Herbert Fertig |
Dynamical systems, computational complexity, and the P versus NP question
|
September 21 |
Clifford M. Will, Washington University
Host: V. Alan Kostelecky |
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment: A Centenary Perspective |
| September 28 |
Hal Evans, Indiana University
Host: Andrzej Zieminski
|
b's in our Bonnet: DZero's role in the Flavor Path to New Physics |
| October 5 |
ROSH HASHANAH |
| October 12 |
Ricardo S. Decca, IUPUI
Host: W. Michael Snow
|
Can we get something out of nothing? Searching for hypothetical forces in the Casimir regime |
| October 19 |
Dale Van Harlingen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Herbert Fertig |
The Physics and Applications of π -Josephson junctions |
| October 26 |
Michael Treacy, Arizona State University
Host: Robert R. De Ruyter |
Inferring Medium Range Order in Amorphous Materials from the Structural Fluctuations |
| November 2 |
Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Host: Robert R. De Ruyter |
Chemosensing in E. coli: Two regimes of two-state receptors
|
| November 9 |
Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University
Host: J.Timothy Londergan and Don Lichtenberg
|
A Pocket-Sized Telling of the Genesis of the Greatest Ideas of the Greatest Thinker of All Time OR How Analogy Showed Einstein the Light, and Light Showed Einstein the Universe |
| November 16 |
Thomas Gregor, Princeton University
Host: Robert R. De Ruyter
|
Establishment of morphogen gradients in early embryonic development |
| November 23 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
November 30
(Joint colloquium with Astronomy.) |
David Jewitt, University of Hawaii
Host: Constantine Deliyannis |
The New Solar System
|
December 7
(Last colloquium of the semester) |
Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
Host: Steven Gottlieb |
Predictive Lattice QCD
|
